Eduard Drach
Ukrainian musician (born 1965)
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Eduard Valeriiovych Drach[a] (Ukrainian: Едуард Валерійович Драч, born 1965), is a composer, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is an active member of the Kyiv Kobzar Guild. The author of numerous songs in a variety of styles, Drach is noted in particular for his original psalms in the Ukrainian historical folk style.[1][2][3][4][5]
Eduard Drach Едуард Драч | |
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Drach in 2009 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 1965 (age 60–61) Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Genres | Ukrainian folk music |
| Occupations | Neurologist, musician |
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Drach was born in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (present-day Ukraine) and was educated as a physician[6] and still works as a neurologist, his career in music notwithstanding. His first instrument was the violin. He went on to become a prize-winning singer-songwriter at numerous festivals, in particular the 1989 Chervona Ruta Festival.
Drach's musical styles include ballads, traditional folk songs, folk rock, folk jazz, and folk avant-garde. Apart from the violin, he also plays guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, mandolin, banjo, kobza, bandura, husli, and lira.[7] Several of his songs have been adapted for lute or torban by Roman Turovsky.[8]
Bibliography
- Catharsis – song texts and poems (2007)[9]
Discography
- Небо України (Nebo Ukrainy) (1994)
- Двом Душам Дарується (Dvom dusham darujet'sia) (2005)
- Про Славу І Багатство (Pro slavu y bahatstvo) (2011)
